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Yilmaz N, Panevska A, Tomishige N, Richert L, Mély Y, Sepčić K, Greimel P, Kobayashi T. Assembly dynamics and structure of an aegerolysin, ostreolysin A6. J Biol Chem 2023; 299:104940. [PMID: 37343702 PMCID: PMC10366546 DOI: 10.1016/j.jbc.2023.104940] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/21/2022] [Revised: 05/08/2023] [Accepted: 06/09/2023] [Indexed: 06/23/2023] Open
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Ostreolysin A6 (OlyA6) is an oyster mushroom-derived membrane-binding protein that, upon recruitment of its partner protein, pleurotolysin B, forms a cytolytic membrane pore complex. OlyA6 itself is not cytolytic but has been reported to exhibit pro-apoptotic activities in cell culture. Here we report the formation dynamics and the structure of OlyA6 assembly on a lipid membrane containing an OlyA6 high-affinity receptor, ceramide phosphoethanolamine, and cholesterol. High-speed atomic force microscopy revealed the reorganization of OlyA6 dimers from initial random surface coverage to 2D protein crystals composed of hexameric OlyA6 repeat units. Crystal growth took place predominantly in the longitudinal direction by the association of OlyA6 dimers, forming a hexameric unit cell. Molecular-level examination of the OlyA6 crystal elucidated the arrangement of dimers within the unit cell and the structure of the dimer that recruits pleurotolysin B for pore formation.
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- Neval Yilmaz
- Lipid Biology Laboratory, RIKEN, 2-1, Wako, Saitama, Japan; NanoLSI, Kanazawa University, Kakuma-machi, Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan.
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- Department of Biology, Biotechnical Faculty, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia
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- Lipid Biology Laboratory, RIKEN, 2-1, Wako, Saitama, Japan; Laboratoire de Bioimagerie et Pathologies, UMR 7021 CNRS, Université de Strasbourg, Faculté de Pharmacie, Illkirch, France
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- Laboratoire de Bioimagerie et Pathologies, UMR 7021 CNRS, Université de Strasbourg, Faculté de Pharmacie, Illkirch, France
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- Laboratoire de Bioimagerie et Pathologies, UMR 7021 CNRS, Université de Strasbourg, Faculté de Pharmacie, Illkirch, France
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- Department of Biology, Biotechnical Faculty, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia
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- Lipid Biology Laboratory, RIKEN, 2-1, Wako, Saitama, Japan.
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- Lipid Biology Laboratory, RIKEN, 2-1, Wako, Saitama, Japan; Laboratoire de Bioimagerie et Pathologies, UMR 7021 CNRS, Université de Strasbourg, Faculté de Pharmacie, Illkirch, France.
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Peng W, de Souza Santos M, Li Y, Tomchick DR, Orth K. High-resolution cryo-EM structures of the E. coli hemolysin ClyA oligomers. PLoS One 2019; 14:e0213423. [PMID: 31048915 PMCID: PMC6497250 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0213423] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/25/2019] [Accepted: 04/08/2019] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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Pore-forming proteins (PFPs) represent a functionally important protein family, that are found in organisms from viruses to humans. As a major branch of PFPs, bacteria pore-forming toxins (PFTs) permeabilize membranes and usually cause the death of target cells. E. coli hemolysin ClyA is the first member with the pore complex structure solved among α-PFTs, employing α-helices as transmembrane elements. ClyA is proposed to form pores composed of various numbers of protomers. With high-resolution cryo-EM structures, we observe that ClyA pore complexes can exist as newly confirmed oligomers of a tridecamer and a tetradecamer, at estimated resolutions of 3.2 Å and 4.3 Å, respectively. The 2.8 Å cryo-EM structure of a dodecamer dramatically improves the existing structural model. Structural analysis indicates that protomers from distinct oligomers resemble each other and neighboring protomers adopt a conserved interaction mode. We also show a stabilized intermediate state of ClyA during the transition process from soluble monomers to pore complexes. Unexpectedly, even without the formation of mature pore complexes, ClyA can permeabilize membranes and allow leakage of particles less than ~400 Daltons. In addition, we are the first to show that ClyA forms pore complexes in the presence of cholesterol within artificial liposomes. These findings provide new mechanistic insights into the dynamic process of pore assembly for the prototypical α-PFT ClyA.
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- Wei Peng
- Department of Molecular Biology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, United States of America
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, United States of America
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- Department of Molecular Biology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, United States of America
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- Department of Biophysics, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, United States of America
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- Department of Biophysics, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, United States of America
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, United States of America
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- Department of Molecular Biology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, United States of America
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, United States of America
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, United States of America
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Endapally S, Frias D, Grzemska M, Gay A, Tomchick DR, Radhakrishnan A. Molecular Discrimination between Two Conformations of Sphingomyelin in Plasma Membranes. Cell 2019; 176:1040-1053.e17. [PMID: 30712872 DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2018.12.042] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/31/2018] [Revised: 09/19/2018] [Accepted: 12/21/2018] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Sphingomyelin and cholesterol are essential lipids that are enriched in plasma membranes of animal cells, where they interact to regulate membrane properties and many intracellular signaling processes. Despite intense study, the interaction between these lipids in membranes is not well understood. Here, structural and biochemical analyses of ostreolysin A (OlyA), a protein that binds to membranes only when they contain both sphingomyelin and cholesterol, reveal that sphingomyelin adopts two distinct conformations in membranes when cholesterol is present. One conformation, bound by OlyA, is induced by stoichiometric, exothermic interactions with cholesterol, properties that are consistent with sphingomyelin/cholesterol complexes. In its second conformation, sphingomyelin is free from cholesterol and does not bind OlyA. A point mutation abolishes OlyA's ability to discriminate between these two conformations. In cells, levels of sphingomyelin/cholesterol complexes are held constant over a wide range of plasma membrane cholesterol concentrations, enabling precise regulation of the chemical activity of cholesterol.
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- Shreya Endapally
- Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75390, USA
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- Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75390, USA
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- Department of Biophysics, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75390, USA
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- Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75390, USA
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- Department of Biophysics, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75390, USA
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- Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75390, USA.
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Mehdizadeh Gohari I, Brefo-Mensah EK, Palmer M, Boerlin P, Prescott JF. Sialic acid facilitates binding and cytotoxic activity of the pore-forming Clostridium perfringens NetF toxin to host cells. PLoS One 2018; 13:e0206815. [PMID: 30403719 PMCID: PMC6221314 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0206815] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/06/2018] [Accepted: 10/20/2018] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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NetF-producing type A Clostridium perfringens is an important cause of canine and foal necrotizing enteritis. NetF, related to the β-sheet pore-forming Leukocidin/Hemolysin superfamily, is considered a major virulence factor for this disease. The main purpose of this work is to demonstrate the pore-forming activity of NetF and characterize the chemical nature of its binding site. Electron microscopy using recombinant NetF (rNetF) confirmed that NetF is able to oligomerize and form large pores in equine ovarian (EO) cell membranes and sheep red blood cells. These oligomeric pores appear to be about 4–6 nm in diameter, and the number of oligomer subunits to vary from 6 to 9. Sodium periodate treatment rendered EO cells non-susceptible to NetF, suggesting that NetF binding requires cell surface carbohydrates. NetF cytotoxicity was also inhibited by a lectin that binds sialic acid, by sialidase, and by free sialic acid in excess, all of which clearly implicate sialic acid-containing membrane carbohydrates in NetF binding and/or toxicity for EO cells. Binding of NetF to sheep red blood cells was not inhibited by the gangliosides GM1, GM2 and GM3, nor did the latter promote membrane permeabilization in liposomes, suggesting that they do not constitute the cellular receptors. In contrast, treatment of EO cells with different proteases reduced their susceptibility to NetF, suggesting that the NetF receptor is a sialic acid-containing glycoprotein.
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Pathobiology, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Pathobiology, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
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The use of immobilized enzymes as biocatalysts has great potential to improve the efficiency and environmental sustainability of many industrial processes. Here, we report a novel approach that allows for the direct production of a highly active immobilized lipase within the bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis. Cry3Aa-lipA crystals were generated by genetically fusing Bacillus subtilis lipase A to Cry3Aa, a protein that naturally forms crystals in the bacteria. The crystal framework significantly stabilized the lipase against denaturation in organic solvents and high temperatures, resulting in a highly efficient fusion crystal that could catalyze the conversion of triacylglycerols to fatty acid methyl ester biodiesel to near-completion over 10 cycles. The simplicity and robustness of the Cry-fusion crystal (CFC) immobilization system could make it an appealing platform for generating industrial biocatalysts for multiple bioprocesses.
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- Bradley S Heater
- School of Life Sciences and Center of Novel Biomaterials, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China
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- School of Life Sciences and Center of Novel Biomaterials, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China
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- School of Life Sciences and Center of Novel Biomaterials, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China.
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Gavin HE, Beubier NT, Satchell KJF. The Effector Domain Region of the Vibrio vulnificus MARTX Toxin Confers Biphasic Epithelial Barrier Disruption and Is Essential for Systemic Spread from the Intestine. PLoS Pathog 2017; 13:e1006119. [PMID: 28060924 PMCID: PMC5218395 DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1006119] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/17/2016] [Accepted: 12/12/2016] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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Vibrio vulnificus causes highly lethal bacterial infections in which the Multifunctional Autoprocessing Repeats-in-Toxins (MARTX) toxin product of the rtxA1 gene is a key virulence factor. MARTX toxins are secreted proteins up to 5208 amino acids in size. Conserved MARTX N- and C-terminal repeat regions work in concert to form pores in eukaryotic cell membranes, through which the toxin's central region of modular effector domains is translocated. Upon inositol hexakisphosphate-induced activation of the of the MARTX cysteine protease domain (CPD) in the eukaryotic cytosol, effector domains are released from the holotoxin by autoproteolytic activity. We previously reported that the native MARTX toxin effector domain repertoire is dispensable for epithelial cellular necrosis in vitro, but essential for cell rounding and apoptosis prior to necrotic cell death. Here we use an intragastric mouse model to demonstrate that the effector domain region is required for bacterial virulence during intragastric infection. The MARTX effector domain region is essential for bacterial dissemination from the intestine, but dissemination occurs in the absence of overt intestinal tissue pathology. We employ an in vitro model of V. vulnificus interaction with polarized colonic epithelial cells to show that the MARTX effector domain region induces rapid intestinal barrier dysfunction and increased paracellular permeability prior to onset of cell lysis. Together, these results negate the inherent assumption that observations of necrosis in vitro directly predict bacterial virulence, and indicate a paradigm shift in our conceptual understanding of MARTX toxin function during intestinal infection. Results implicate the MARTX effector domain region in mediating early bacterial dissemination from the intestine to distal organs-a key step in V. vulnificus foodborne pathogenesis-even before onset of overt intestinal pathology.
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- Hannah E. Gavin
- Department of Microbiology-Immunology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, United States of America
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- Department of Pathology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago, IL, United States of America
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- Department of Microbiology-Immunology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, United States of America
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Mulvihill E, van Pee K, Mari SA, Müller DJ, Yildiz Ö. Directly Observing the Lipid-Dependent Self-Assembly and Pore-Forming Mechanism of the Cytolytic Toxin Listeriolysin O. Nano Lett 2015; 15:6965-6973. [PMID: 26302195 DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.5b02963] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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Listeriolysin O (LLO) is the major virulence factor of Listeria monocytogenes and a member of the cholesterol-dependent cytolysin (CDC) family. Gram-positive pathogenic bacteria produce water-soluble CDC monomers that bind cholesterol-dependent to the lipid membrane of the attacked cell or of the phagosome, oligomerize into prepores, and insert into the membrane to form transmembrane pores. However, the mechanisms guiding LLO toward pore formation are poorly understood. Using electron microscopy and time-lapse atomic force microscopy, we show that wild-type LLO binds to membranes, depending on the presence of cholesterol and other lipids. LLO oligomerizes into arc- or slit-shaped assemblies, which merge into complete rings. All three oligomeric assemblies can form transmembrane pores, and their efficiency to form pores depends on the cholesterol and the phospholipid composition of the membrane. Furthermore, the dynamic fusion of arcs, slits, and rings into larger rings and their formation of transmembrane pores does not involve a height difference between prepore and pore. Our results reveal new insights into the pore-forming mechanism and introduce a dynamic model of pore formation by LLO and other CDC pore-forming toxins.
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- Estefania Mulvihill
- Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH) Zurich , Mattenstrasse 26, 4058 Basel, Switzerland
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- Department of Structural Biology, Max-Planck-Institute of Biophysics , Max von Laue Str. 3, 60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH) Zurich , Mattenstrasse 26, 4058 Basel, Switzerland
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- Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH) Zurich , Mattenstrasse 26, 4058 Basel, Switzerland
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- Department of Structural Biology, Max-Planck-Institute of Biophysics , Max von Laue Str. 3, 60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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Lin Q, Wang T, Li H, London E. Decreasing Transmembrane Segment Length Greatly Decreases Perfringolysin O Pore Size. J Membr Biol 2015; 248:517-27. [PMID: 25850715 DOI: 10.1007/s00232-015-9798-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/06/2015] [Accepted: 03/25/2015] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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Perfringolysin O (PFO) is a transmembrane (TM) β-barrel protein that inserts into mammalian cell membranes. Once inserted into membranes, PFO assembles into pore-forming oligomers containing 30-50 PFO monomers. These form a pore of up to 300 Å, far exceeding the size of most other proteinaceous pores. In this study, we found that altering PFO TM segment length can alter the size of PFO pores. A PFO mutant with lengthened TM segments oligomerized to a similar extent as wild-type PFO, and exhibited pore-forming activity and a pore size very similar to wild-type PFO as measured by electron microscopy and a leakage assay. In contrast, PFO with shortened TM segments exhibited a large reduction in pore-forming activity and pore size. This suggests that the interaction between TM segments can greatly affect the size of pores formed by TM β-barrel proteins. PFO may be a promising candidate for engineering pore size for various applications.
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- Qingqing Lin
- Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, 11794-5215, USA
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Pulcu GS, Mikhailova E, Choi LS, Bayley H. Continuous observation of the stochastic motion of an individual small-molecule walker. Nat Nanotechnol 2015; 10:76-83. [PMID: 25486119 PMCID: PMC5011421 DOI: 10.1038/nnano.2014.264] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/01/2014] [Accepted: 10/15/2014] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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Motion--whether it the ability to change shape, rotate or translate--is an important potential asset for functional nanostructures. For translational motion, a variety of DNA-based and small-molecule walkers have been created, but observing the translational motion of individual molecules in real time remains a significant challenge. Here, we show that the movement of a small-molecule walker along a five-foothold track can be monitored continuously within a protein nanoreactor. The walker is an organoarsenic(III) molecule with exchangeable thiol ligands, and the track a line of cysteine residues 6 Å apart within an α-haemolysin protein pore that acts as the nanoreactor. Changes in the flow of ionic current through the pore reflect the individual steps of a single walker, which require the making and breaking of As-S bonds, and occur in aqueous solution at neutral pH and room temperature. The walker moves considerably faster (∼0.7 s per step) than previous walkers based on covalent chemistry and is weakly processive (6 ± 1 steps per outing). It shows weak net directional movement, which can be described by a thermodynamic sink arising from the different environments of the cysteines that constitute the track.
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- Gökçe Su Pulcu
- Correspondence and requests for materials should be addressed to G.S.P () or H.B ()
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- Correspondence and requests for materials should be addressed to G.S.P () or H.B ()
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Sun S, Fan J, Cheng Z, Cai Y, Li G, Pang Y. The effect of gamma sterilization on the insecticidal toxicity of engineered and conventional Bacillus thuringiensis strains. J Econ Entomol 2013; 106:36-42. [PMID: 23448012 DOI: 10.1603/ec12192] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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This study evaluates the effect of gamma radiation on the spore activity, toxicity, and crystal structures of two engineered Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) strains, TnX and TnY, and the reference Bt strain HD-1. We attempted to identify dosages of cobalt-60 gamma radiation that would inactivate Bt spores but not affect its toxicity. In the radiation dosage range of 10-15 kilogray, no viable spore formation and no significant reduction of the efficiency of Bt against lepidopteran larvae were observed. However, further sodium dodecyl sulfate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE) results show that the components of the protoxin are affected by gamma radiation and that some bands are absent after treatment compared with the controls; the change in the protoxin band pattern depends on the type of Bt strain. Furthermore, the spore crystal structure of three Bt strains was studied with scanning electron microscopy and transmission electron microscopy. The results show that there are no changes in the size or shape of the treated Bt spores and crystals compared with the controls. The use of gamma radiation is effective to inactivate the spores of engineered Bt strains while preserving stable Bt toxicity against the target insect larvae.
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- Shifeng Sun
- State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, College of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510275, P. R. China
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Soskine M, Biesemans A, Moeyaert B, Cheley S, Bayley H, Maglia G. An engineered ClyA nanopore detects folded target proteins by selective external association and pore entry. Nano Lett 2012; 12:4895-900. [PMID: 22849517 PMCID: PMC3440510 DOI: 10.1021/nl3024438] [Citation(s) in RCA: 108] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/08/2023]
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Nanopores have been used in label-free single-molecule studies, including investigations of chemical reactions, nucleic acid analysis, and applications in sensing. Biological nanopores generally perform better than artificial nanopores as sensors, but they have disadvantages including a fixed diameter. Here we introduce a biological nanopore ClyA that is wide enough to sample and distinguish large analyte proteins, which enter the pore lumen. Remarkably, human and bovine thrombins, despite 86% sequence identity, elicit characteristic ionic current blockades, which at -50 mV differ in their main current levels by 26 ± 1 pA. The use of DNA aptamers or hirudin as ligands further distinguished the protein analytes. Finally, we constructed ClyA nanopores decorated with covalently attached aptamers. These nanopores selectively captured and internalized cognate protein analytes but excluded noncognate analytes, in a process that resembles transport by nuclear pores.
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- Misha Soskine
- Department of Chemistry, University of Leuven, Leuven, 3001, Belgium
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Leuven, Leuven, 3001, Belgium
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- Department of Pharmacology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, T6G 2E1, AB Canada
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX1 3TA, UK
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Leuven, Leuven, 3001, Belgium
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Robertson JWF, Kasianowicz JJ, Reiner JE. Changes in ion channel geometry resolved to sub-ångström precision via single molecule mass spectrometry. J Phys Condens Matter 2010; 22:454108. [PMID: 21339596 DOI: 10.1088/0953-8984/22/45/454108] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
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The ion channel formed by Staphylococcus aureus alpha-hemolysin switches between multiple open conducting states. We describe a method for precisely estimating the changes in the ion channel geometry that correspond to these different states. Experimentally, we observed that the permeability of a single channel to differently sized poly(ethylene glycol) molecules depends on the magnitude of the open state conductance. A simple theory is proposed for determining changes in channel length of 4.2% and in cross-sectional area of -0.4%.
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- Joseph W F Robertson
- Semiconductor Electronics Division, Electronics and Electrical Engineering Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD 20899, USA
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Dutta S, Mazumdar B, Banerjee KK, Ghosh AN. Three-dimensional structure of different functional forms of the Vibrio cholerae hemolysin oligomer: a cryo-electron microscopic study. J Bacteriol 2010; 192:169-78. [PMID: 19854900 PMCID: PMC2798276 DOI: 10.1128/jb.00930-09] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/16/2009] [Accepted: 10/12/2009] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Vibrio cholerae hemolysin (HlyA) is a 65-kDa water-soluble pore-forming toxin that causes lysis of eukaryotic cells by destroying selective permeability of the plasma membrane bilayer. The HlyA monomer self-assembles on the target cell surface to the more stable beta-barrel amphipathic heptamer, which inserts into the membrane bilayer to form a diffusion channel. Deletion of the 15-kDa beta-prism lectin domain at the C terminus generates a 50-kDa hemolysin variant (HlyA50) with an approximately 1,000-fold decrease in hemolytic activity. Because functional differences are eventually dictated by structural differences, we determined three-dimensional structures of 65- and 50-kDa HlyA oligomers, using cryo-electron microscopy and single-particle methods. Our study clearly shows that the HlyA oligomer has sevenfold symmetry but that the HlyA50 oligomer is an asymmetric molecule. The HlyA oligomer has bowl-like, arm-like, and ring-like domains. The bowl-like domain is coupled with the ring-like domain, and seven side openings are present just beneath the ring-like domain. Although a central channel is present in both HlyA and HlyA50 oligomers, they differ in pore size as well as in shape of the molecules and channel. These structural differences may be relevant to the striking difference in efficiencies of functional channel formation by the two toxin forms.
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- Somnath Dutta
- Division of Electron Microscopy, Division of Biochemistry, National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases, P-33, C.I.T. Road, Scheme XM, Beleghata, Kolkata 700010, India
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- Division of Electron Microscopy, Division of Biochemistry, National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases, P-33, C.I.T. Road, Scheme XM, Beleghata, Kolkata 700010, India
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- Division of Electron Microscopy, Division of Biochemistry, National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases, P-33, C.I.T. Road, Scheme XM, Beleghata, Kolkata 700010, India
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- Division of Electron Microscopy, Division of Biochemistry, National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases, P-33, C.I.T. Road, Scheme XM, Beleghata, Kolkata 700010, India
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Rausell C, Ochoa-Campuzano C, Martínez-Ramírez AC, Bravo A, Real MD. A membrane associated metalloprotease cleaves Cry3Aa Bacillus thuringiensis toxin reducing pore formation in Colorado potato beetle brush border membrane vesicles. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes 2007; 1768:2293-9. [PMID: 17643388 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbamem.2007.06.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/26/2007] [Revised: 06/11/2007] [Accepted: 06/11/2007] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Insect proteases are implicated in Bacillus thuringiensis insecticidal proteins mode of action determining toxin specificity and sensitivity. Few data are available on the involvement of proteases in the later steps of toxicity such as protease interaction with toxin-receptor complexes and the pore formation process. In this study, a Colorado potato beetle (CPB) midgut membrane metalloprotease was found to be involved in the proteolytic processing of Cry3Aa. Interaction of Cry3Aa with BBMV membrane proteases resulted in a distinct pattern of proteolysis. Cleavage was demonstrated to occur in protease accessible regions of domain III and was specifically inhibited by the metalloprotease inhibitors 1,10-phenanthroline and acetohydroxamic acid. Proteolytic inhibition by a peptide representing a segment of proteolysis in domain III and the metalloprotease inhibitor acetohydroxamic acid correlated with increased pore formation, evidencing that Cry3Aa is a specific target of a CPB membrane metalloprotease that degrades potentially active toxin.
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- C Rausell
- Departamento de Genética, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad de Valencia, Dr. Moliner 50, Burjassot 46100, Valencia, Spain
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Ounjai P, Unger VM, Sigworth FJ, Angsuthanasombat C. Two conformational states of the membrane-associated Bacillus thuringiensis Cry4Ba delta-endotoxin complex revealed by electron crystallography: implications for toxin-pore formation. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2007; 361:890-5. [PMID: 17681273 PMCID: PMC2583932 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2007.07.086] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/10/2007] [Accepted: 07/16/2007] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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The insecticidal nature of Cry delta-endotoxins produced by Bacillus thuringiensis is generally believed to be caused by their ability to form lytic pores in the midgut cell membrane of susceptible insect larvae. Here we have analyzed membrane-associated structures of the 65-kDa dipteran-active Cry4Ba toxin by electron crystallography. The membrane-associated toxin complex was crystallized in the presence of DMPC via detergent dialysis. Depending upon the charge of the adsorbed surface, 2D crystals of the oligomeric toxin complex have been captured in two distinct conformations. The projection maps of those crystals have been generated at 17A resolution. Both complexes appeared to be trimeric; as in one crystal form, its projection structure revealed a symmetrical pinwheel-like shape with virtually no depression in the middle of the complex. The other form revealed a propeller-like conformation displaying an obvious hole in the center region, presumably representing the toxin-induced pore. These crystallographic data thus demonstrate for the first time that the 65-kDa activated Cry4Ba toxin in association with lipid membranes could exist in at least two different trimeric conformations, conceivably implying the closed and open states of the pore.
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- Puey Ounjai
- Department of Cellular and Molecular Physiology, Yale University School of Medicine, 333 Cedar Street, New Haven, CT 06520-8024, USA
- Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics and Structural Biochemistry, Institute of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Mahidol University, Salaya Campus, Nakornpathom 73170 Thailand
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- Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University School of Medicine, P.O. Box 208024, New Haven, CT 06520-8024, USA
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- Department of Cellular and Molecular Physiology, Yale University School of Medicine, 333 Cedar Street, New Haven, CT 06520-8024, USA
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- Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics and Structural Biochemistry, Institute of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Mahidol University, Salaya Campus, Nakornpathom 73170 Thailand
- Corresponding Author. Fax: +66-2-4419906, E-mail: (C. Angsuthanasombat)
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Zhang J, Shklovskii BI. Effective charge and free energy of DNA inside an ion channel. Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys 2007; 75:021906. [PMID: 17358366 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.75.021906] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/21/2006] [Revised: 11/03/2006] [Indexed: 05/14/2023]
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Translocation of a single stranded DNA (ssDNA) through an alpha -hemolysin channel in a lipid membrane driven by applied transmembrane voltage V was extensively studied recently. While the bare charge of the ssDNA piece inside the channel is approximately 12 (in units of electron charge) measurements of different effective charges resulted in values between one and two. We explain these challenging observations by a large self-energy of a charge in the narrow water filled gap between ssDNA and channel walls, related to large difference between dielectric constants of water and lipid, and calculate effective charges of ssDNA. We start from the most fundamental stall charge q(s), which determines the force F(s)=q(s)V/L stalling DNA against the voltage V ( L is the length of the channel). We show that the stall charge q(s) is proportional to the ion current blocked by DNA, which is small due to the self-energy barrier. Large voltage V reduces the capture barrier which DNA molecule should overcome in order to enter the channel by /q(c)/V, where q(c) is the effective capture charge. We expressed it through the stall charge q(s). We also relate the stall charge q(s) to two other effective charges measured for ssDNA with a hairpin in the back end: the charge q(u) responsible for reduction of the barrier for unzipping of the hairpin and the charge q(e) responsible for DNA escape in the direction of hairpin against the voltage. At small V we explain reduction of the capture barrier with the salt concentration.
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- Jingshan Zhang
- Theoretical Physics Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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Bakás L, Chanturiya A, Herlax V, Zimmerberg J. Paradoxical lipid dependence of pores formed by the Escherichia coli alpha-hemolysin in planar phospholipid bilayer membranes. Biophys J 2006; 91:3748-55. [PMID: 16935953 PMCID: PMC1630460 DOI: 10.1529/biophysj.106.090019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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alpha-Hemolysin (HlyA) is an extracellular protein toxin (117 kDa) secreted by Escherichia coli that targets the plasma membranes of eukaryotic cells. We studied the interaction of this toxin with membranes using planar phospholipid bilayers. For all lipid mixtures tested, addition of nanomolar concentrations of toxin resulted in an increase of membrane conductance and a decrease in membrane stability. HlyA decreased membrane lifetime up to three orders of magnitude in a voltage-dependent manner. Using a theory for lipidic pore formation, we analyzed these data to quantify how HlyA diminished the line tension of the membrane (i.e., the energy required to form the edge of a new pore). However, in contrast to the expectation that adding the positive curvature agent lysophosphatidylcholine would synergistically lower line tension, its addition significantly stabilized HlyA-treated membranes. HlyA also appeared to thicken bilayers to which it was added. We discuss these results in terms of models for proteolipidic pores.
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- Laura Bakás
- Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Biophysics, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA
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Eifler N, Vetsch M, Gregorini M, Ringler P, Chami M, Philippsen A, Fritz A, Müller SA, Glockshuber R, Engel A, Grauschopf U. Cytotoxin ClyA from Escherichia coli assembles to a 13-meric pore independent of its redox-state. EMBO J 2006; 25:2652-61. [PMID: 16688219 PMCID: PMC1478193 DOI: 10.1038/sj.emboj.7601130] [Citation(s) in RCA: 95] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/15/2005] [Accepted: 04/13/2006] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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ClyA is a pore-forming toxin from virulent Escherichia coli and Salmonella enterica strains. Here, we show that the intrinsic hemolytic activity of ClyA is independent of its redox state, and that the assembly of both reduced and oxidized ClyA to the ring-shaped oligomer is triggered by contact with lipid or detergent. A rate-limiting conformational transition in membrane-bound ClyA monomers precedes their assembly to the functional pore. We obtained a three-dimensional model of the detergent-induced oligomeric complex at 12 A resolution by combining cryo- and negative stain electron microscopy with mass measurements by scanning transmission electron microscopy. The model reveals that 13 ClyA monomers assemble into a cylinder with a hydrophobic cap region, which may be critical for membrane insertion.
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- Nora Eifler
- Maurice E Müller Institute for Microscopy, Biozentrum, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
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- Institute for Molecular Biology & Biophysics, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
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- Maurice E Müller Institute for Microscopy, Biozentrum, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
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- Maurice E Müller Institute for Microscopy, Biozentrum, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
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- Maurice E Müller Institute for Microscopy, Biozentrum, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
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- Maurice E Müller Institute for Microscopy, Biozentrum, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
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- Institute for Molecular Biology & Biophysics, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
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- Maurice E Müller Institute for Microscopy, Biozentrum, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
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- Institute for Molecular Biology & Biophysics, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
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- Maurice E Müller Institute for Microscopy, Biozentrum, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
- Maurice E Müller Institute for Microscopy, Bonzentrum, University of Basel, 4056 Basel, Switzerland. Tel.: +41 61 267 22 61; Fax: +41 61 267 21 09; E-mail:
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- Institute for Molecular Biology & Biophysics, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
- Institute for Molecular Biology & Biophysics, ETH Zürich, 8093 Zürich, Switzerland. Tel.: +41 44 633 24 82; Fax: +41 44 633 10 36; E-mail:
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Wallace AJ, Stillman TJ, Atkins A, Jamieson SJ, Bullough PA, Green J, Artymiuk PJ. E. coli hemolysin E (HlyE, ClyA, SheA): X-ray crystal structure of the toxin and observation of membrane pores by electron microscopy. Cell 2000; 100:265-76. [PMID: 10660049 DOI: 10.1016/s0092-8674(00)81564-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 177] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Hemolysin E (HlyE) is a novel pore-forming toxin of Escherichia coli, Salmonella typhi, and Shigella flexneri. Here we report the X-ray crystal structure of the water-soluble form of E. coli HlyE at 2.0 A resolution and the visualization of the lipid-associated form of the toxin in projection at low resolution by electron microscopy. The crystal structure reveals HlyE to be the first member of a new family of toxin structures, consisting of an elaborated helical bundle some 100 A long. The electron micrographs show how HlyE oligomerizes in the presence of lipid to form transmembrane pores. Taken together, the data from these two structural techniques allow us to propose a simple model for the structure of the pore and for membrane interaction.
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- A J Wallace
- The Krebs Institute, Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, University of Sheffield, Western Bank, United Kingdom
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El Tor hemolysin (ETH; molecular mass, 65 kDa) derived from Vibrio cholerae O1 spontaneously assembled oligomeric aggregates on the membranes of rabbit erythrocyte ghosts and liposomes. Membrane-associated oligomers were resolved by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and immunoblotting into two to nine bands with apparent molecular masses of 170 to 350 kDa. ETH assembled oligomers on a liposomal membrane consisting of phosphatidylcholine and cholesterol, but not on a membrane of phosphatidylcholine alone. Cholesterol could be replaced with diosgenin or ergosterol but not with 5alpha-cholestane-3-one, suggesting that sterol is essential for the oligomerization. The treatment of carboxyfluorescein-encapsulated liposomes with ETH caused a rapid release of carboxyfluorescein into the medium. Because dextrin 20 (molecular mass, 900 Da) osmotically protected ETH-mediated hemolysis, this hemolysis is likely to be caused by pore formation on the membrane. The pore size(s) estimated from osmotic protection assays was in the range of 1.2 to 1.6 nm. The pore formed on a rabbit erythrocyte membrane was confirmed morphologically by electron microscopy. Thus, we provide evidence that ETH damages the target by the assembly of hemolysin oligomers and pore formation on the membrane.
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- H Ikigai
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Showa University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
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